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Zande border raids
Africa • 27 • Published In 1957 • Pages: 217-230
By: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief article concerns the nature of border raids in four of the frontier provinces of the Gbudwe kingdom of Azande. Herein is found a valuable discussion of the following: motivations behind raids, combat preparations, aftermath of combat, raiding strategy and tactics, and other characteristics of military operations. While the article stresses more a description of actual battles and military episodes rather than an analysis of cultural-historical forces determining Azande warfare and raiding, the author does not draw the significant distinction between raids (affrays) and war campaigns: wars mobilize all or most of the territorial and social divisions of an Azande kingdom, while raids are military engagements between specific Azande or non-Azande provinces. Although not necessarily differing in objectives or operations, raids are much smaller in scale and scope than are wars. This article, however, relates neither raids nor wars to other Azande institutions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Instigation of war
- History
- Warfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Azande
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Gilbert Winer ; 1968-1969
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1927-1930
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1865 - ca. 1905
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Gbudwe Kingdom, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zande (African people)